• “The whole, room-filling, multi-sensory headswim, though, owed everything to the evening’s real stars – the crisply-suited composers Ben Salisbury and Barnaby Taylor who graciously took a well-earned two minutes of pre-encore stage time to democratically thank the rest of the unsung ensemble. Their sweepingly grandiose orchestral score thumped, thrummed and trilled, flooding the primal on-screen drama with adrenaline, tenderness and tension. Dazzlingly immersive. Gratifyingly Bristolian.”
  Venue Magazine
• “Seeing these creatures live, die and survive in their private space, together with top human music and the voice from the skies, was only ever going to be a magnificent evening’s entertainment.”
  Suit Yourself Magazine
• “The night revolved around six short films documenting the beautiful and uninhibited natural world with a soundtrack by the orchestra and narration by Sir David; so in effect watching a wildlife film, an incredible secret space, with all the other emotive components played before you, in real life. I keep emphasising ‘real life’ because whilst watching The Great Salmon Run, The Great Melt and The Great Feast etc., I had to keep looking down at the sprawling orchestra to check they were still there, playing every moment rising and falling with speeding hearts, to stop going into TV veg-mode, such was the perfect with which they performed.”
  Bristol Listings.co.uk
• “As if having a national institution in our midsts was not enough, the series’ award-winning soundtrack, by Ben Salisbury and Barnaby Taylor, was performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by William Goodchild. While the stirring orchestral score filled the hall, Sir David bestrode the stage like a colossus. Elegant and eloquent, the presenter of such televisual gems as Life On Earth, The Life of Mammals and The Private Life of Plants, was a joy to behold, providing a pithy commentary without once detracting from the quite majestic pictures from Nature’s Great Events and the wonderful live music.”  Bristol Evening Post
• “Frolicking cubs were underlined with jovial refrains on mallet percussion, mating Dragonflies with quasi-celestial twinkle, while Lions – near-starved and barely clinging to life – were met with emotive woodwind passages. It was the wide open vistas of the great African plains, grasslands and icy oceans though which saw the orchestra take flight, offering grandly sweeping gestures for strings and brass, while the larger, more ferocious sights gave rise to swathes of percussion. ‘A Heavy-weight Battle’ in Movement II (The Great Flood) was one such example, while the militaristic might of the final movement (The Great Tide) in which a ‘Super Pod’ of Dolphins, joined by sharks, whales and sea birds, mass an attack on millions of sardines off coast of South Africa, was a stunning display. It truly was a battering, with infectiously rhythmic percussive lines – performed with support from local percussionists – and was a brilliantly rousing finale to the piece…..The music and images of course went hand in hand, one supporting the other in all kinds of ways, and as often happens with this kind of performance, it was easy to forget you were in the presence of a live orchestra, so engaging were the images on screen……Natures Great Events really was Bristol’s great event and those of us lucky enough to attend were left in no doubt that this city really has a lot going for it right now. Congratulations to all involved and let’s hope Colston Hall can offer its stage to more events like this in the future.”
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